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...Pryor in Concert, but it doesn't miss by much. Live on the Sunset Strip is the sort of movie one would want Jerry Falwell. Anita Bryant and perhaps Nancy Reagan to be chained to the front row of the theater and forced to watch with eyes propped open Clockwork Orange style. It's that rude...

Author: By Mark A. Silber, | Title: Still Funnier Than Thou | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

...Like Clockwork...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Greg Brown Named Football Captain; Callinan Gets Crocker MVP Award | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of the original Flash Gordon: yet it remains an underwhelming story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across...

Author: By --david M. Handelman, | Title: A Victim of the Modern Age | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

This dilemma seems to be a preoccupation for Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange, his most famous novel written nearly 20 years ago, involves a furious debate on free will that rages behind the grim plot of a state-financed venture to save the soul of an ultra-violent gangleader. In his latest work, Earthly Powers, Burgess continues this debate through the fictional portrayal of a homosexual author obsessed with the question of human will and its relation to religion. Whereas the earlier book depended on its tersely futuristic narrative and frighteningly gruesome story-line for its remarkable success, the moral...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: God's in His Heaven | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

BORN. To Malcolm McDowell, 37, British actor (A Clockwork Orange, Caligula), and his wife of four months, Mary Steenburgen, 27, American actress (Melvin and Howard); their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Lilly Amanda. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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